让大模型自我生成推理路径,无需人工标注也能提升泛化能力。
ReGenesis: LLMs can Grow into Reasoning Generalists via Self-Improvement
- 从通用推理规则逐步推导出具体任务的推理路径。
- 在6个域外任务上平均性能提升6.1%,优于此前方法下降4.6%。
- 适用于多种模型,无需人工设计示例,适合追求泛化推理的研究者。
后训练阶段的大语言模型若具备显式的推理轨迹,可增强其推理能力。然而,获取高质量轨迹数据通常依赖人工或高级模型的精细监督,成本高且受许可限制。本文探索大模型能否通过自生成推理路径作为训练数据,在无额外监督下实现自我提升。现有自生成方法(如STaR)在域外(OOD)推理任务中泛化能力差,我们推测原因在于其生成的推理路径过于任务特定,缺乏通用性指导。为此,提出ReGenesis:一种通过从抽象到具体逐步演进的方式自生成推理路径的方法。ReGenesis将通用推理准则转化为具体任务路径,生成推理结构并进一步转化为完整推理链,无需依赖人工设计的任务示例。实验表明,ReGenesis在所有测试的域内与域外设置中均优于现有方法。针对六个域外任务,先前方法平均性能下降约4.6%,而ReGenesis实现约6.1%的性能提升。深入分析显示该框架对不同模型和设计选择均有效。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with explicit reasoning trajectories can enhance their reasoning abilities. However, acquiring such high-quality trajectory data typically demands meticulous supervision from humans or superior models, which can be either expensive or license-constrained. In this paper, we explore how far an LLM can improve its reasoning by self-synthesizing reasoning paths as training data without any additional supervision. Existing self-synthesizing methods, such as STaR, suffer from poor generalization to out-of-domain (OOD) reasoning tasks. We hypothesize it is due to that their self-synthesized reasoning paths are too task-specific, lacking general task-agnostic reasoning guidance. To address this, we propose Reasoning Generalist via Self-Improvement (ReGenesis), a method to self-synthesize reasoning paths as post-training data by progressing from abstract to concrete. More specifically, ReGenesis self-synthesizes reasoning paths by converting general reasoning guidelines into task-specific ones, generating reasoning structures, and subsequently transforming these structures into reasoning paths, without the need for human-designed task-specific examples used in existing methods. We show that ReGenesis achieves superior performance on all in-domain and OOD settings tested compared to existing methods. For six OOD tasks specifically, while previous methods exhibited an average performance decrease of approximately 4.6% after post training, ReGenesis delivers around 6.1% performance improvement. We also conduct in-depth analysis of our framework and show ReGenesis is effective across various LLMs and design choices.
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